New Ulm weekly review., 1887-11-16
INTERNAL REvENuE
GoHsTnissioner MiiIer's Annuar Pa
per--A Mass CT interesting Facts
Cleaned Therefrom.

Ns10dfl0u tIl0TGHOHf1.
he report of Miller, commissioners OF in
ternal revenue, has just been issued, and
some OF the more signifcan MT facts. con.
tanned IN 1t which have a bearing upon the
subject OF the surplus revenue arertfese.
81 is estimated that $40, 900, 600 will
ba,-follected from. the internal raYenue
taxation during the currentr fiscal
year, provided there shaH be
noe change in existing rates OF taxation-
The collections fo-sthe last fiscal -ear COM
pared with those for the preceding fiscal
yaar show there has been decrease in the
anount OF tax collected from spirits. and
an increase in the receipts from ths-tax ON
tobacco, fermented liquors, banks and.
bankers and olaOmargarine. The same
percentage OF increase is maintained for
tine first three months OF the current fiscal
zear. The totaEcost of collecting. the In
5ernai revenue sax was 81, O6E,14S. or
about 4 per cent of the amounts collected.
This is about tie usual percentage OF cost.
although there was a slight reaction II,
favor OF the expense for tha-last fiscal
year There we're 456 illicit lIstiileries
seized last year
The commissioner recommends, that Am
additional head OF division be created to-
carry out the aRovisions OF the.oleomarpa.
rIne act. The total receipts for the first
year in whic8 the law has bssn enfores,a
were almost: 81, 900, 900. Such a result
Was not anticipated. Practically the tax
has been in excess OF the twa cents pro-
vided for bNthe law. By disiding the to-
tai receipts by the number af pounds re-
moved Tor consumption or sale the tax
per pound is found to be e.3, cents. The
number OF persons doing business under
the act hiss been reduced Enem Z ~2l2 to
!, 5S4
SOME MORE FIGURES.
The reporter says:
Total neeeipts for the isoal wear were
S113, ,S24 523, as compared with S1l6-
902, ,S6a4for 1886. The reduction of the
number Of Internal revenue districts has
very considerably lesseneel the cost of col
Letting she internal revenue taxes, and has
not In any manner been. detrimental to
the ihserest OF the Taxpayers, so far as
he has been informed. The quantity OF
spirias produced and deposited in distillery
warehouses during ths. last fiscal year
compared with 1886, distributed among
the different kinds hnown to the trade
was as follows: Insuease in the produc.
tlGn OF rum, 57,271 gallons; gin, 9O,4lS
gallons; high wines. 141 ,465 gallons; pure
neutral or cologne spirits. 527, 63S gallons:
3Otal Increase, l ,230. 746 gallons De-
crease IN the prodaetion OF Bourbon whis-
Ky. 2,303, 7S5 gallons: rye whisky. $685.
300 gallons; alcohol, 91O. S42 gallons: total
decrease, 3, 743,527 gallons; net decrease,
5l3, 7s1 gallons. The quantity OF spir.
its withdrawn, tax paid, from distillery
warehouses dasring the past fiscal year
compared with 1886 was: Decrease in
withdrawal & Bourbon whisky, 3, 977. 7O4
gallons; rye whisky. 41O,2O9 gallons; mis-
cellaneous, 26l, 7O4 gallons. Total increase
4, 649. 707 gallons. Increase in withdrawal
OF alcohol 955, 917 gallons; rum, lO4, 627
gallons; gin. 5S,7 gallons; high wines,
10, GAL gallons; pure neutral or cologne
spirits, G06, ,2O5. Total increase from
1856, 2,913,597 gallons. OF the quantity,
2.216.645 gallons Of domestic spirits ex-
ported and reimported during the year
upon payment OF a customs duty equal to
the internal revenue tax be added The
quantity virtually withdrawn from distil-
lery warehouses during the year ended
June 30, 1887, is found to be 6S, $685.
94S gallons, or 1864 ,452 gallons
less than during the year 1886,
including the 967, 500 gallons reimported
ana tax paid during that year. There are
OF re-imported spirits liable to be returned
SIX or seven million gallons in oreign ware
houses. He recommends that section
25OO Revised Statutes be so amended as
to exclude as an article subject to Gus
toms duty all domestic spirits returned to
this country, and to provide for the coIlec-
tlon OF the internal revenue tax due on
such spirits as shown by the marks and
brands on the packages at the time OF the
removal OF the spirits from the distiller's s
warehouse.